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Top Gear's Famous Test Track Is About To Turn Into A Housing Development

In a narrow vote on Wednesday, the BBC reports that a local council in Surrey, England approved plans to redevelop Dunsfold Aerodrome and build 1,800 new homes. That name may sound familiar, because Dunsfold Aerodrome is the site of the test track used by Top Gear.

Waverley Borough Council voted 10-8 in favor of redeveloping the airfield, with arguments for the redevelopment being the new jobs and the more affordable homes that would be created on a site that the BBC reports already houses over 100 businesses.

According to the BBC, the airfield will close its runways to be redeveloped as a business park—a plan that’s been whispered about for several years. The Top Gear test track includes the airfield’s main runway and taxiways, meaning that this could be bad news for the show and its leaderboard.

(Jalopnik.com)